Facts:
- Taxi’s and Trucks go at high speeds.
- Government orders them to install Speed Governors.
- The respective associations threaten to go on strike. In a way they are saying “We’ll drive the way we want. We dont care about safety.”
- Transport minister retracts order.
Are we being held to ransom here? These guys are actually tweaking their noses at the common citizen. They REFUSE to comply with an order that actually makes driving safer.
July 2, 2007 at 3:01 am |
Well, they say the rule will be enforced from January 1, 2008. So, another threat for a strike then?!
July 2, 2007 at 4:48 am |
@Chitra: 100% correct !!!
July 2, 2007 at 8:18 am |
Cheluvanarayanaswamy thinks its for his future transport minister to bite the bullet considering BJP has to take over…
All said and done speed governors are important on highways.
July 2, 2007 at 5:23 pm |
But traffic in Bangalore should be acting as speed governors right ? I heard it is Bumper to bumper traffic
July 2, 2007 at 7:07 pm |
I thought men more talk about politics and sports and we need to include one extra topic .. traffic, specially the bangalore traffic…
Vijay, so you wrote it before silkboad did
well, lets see what our yellow board folks say!
July 3, 2007 at 4:18 am |
bach,
Speed governers restrict over speeding and preset like 60KMPH on highways for buses but its not meant to make it zero!
January 21, 2008 at 11:13 am |
[...] drive the way we wan’t to. So what if a few accidents happen”. The government tried to introduce this last year, but the threat of a strike forced them to hold off. They reintroduced it now… and the same [...]